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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Prosecutions"”.
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The Prohibition of Successive Prosecutions and Multiple Punishments for the Same Offense : in Search of Standards. Volume 1.
The purpose of the thesis is to formulate a definition of the protection offered by state and federal law against double jeopardy for the "same offense." The thesis first examines the history and purpose of the double jeopardy concept. It next analyzes the Supreme Court double jeopardy clause …
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The Prohibition of Successive Prosecutions and Multiple Punishments for the Same Offense : in Search of Standards. Volume 2.
The purpose of the thesis is to formulate a definition of the protection offered by state and federal law against double jeopardy for the "same offense." The thesis first examines the history and purpose of the double jeopardy concept. It next analyzes the Supreme Court double jeopardy clause …
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Managing Prosecutorial Discretion Through Victim Participation in Prosecutions – a Comparative Study of the United States, Japan and Taiwan
… It empowers individuals to proceed with private prosecutions and also allows relevant parties to seek judicial review of non-prosecution decisions. Japan created Committees composed of citizens who are randomly selected by local government offices. Committees review non-prosecution decisions and …
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POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND POLITICAL ENGAGMENT: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION PROSECUTIONS ON VOTING AND GOVERNMENT TRUST IN THE UNITED STATES
Past research has confirmed the importance of structural and individual-level factors in predicting voter turnout and citizen trust in the government. In international research particularly, political corruption has been shown to negatively affect citizen trust, though the effect of corruption on …
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Cops in Court: Assessing the Criminal Prosecutions of Police in Six Major Scandals in the New York City Police Department from 1894 to 1994
… prosecution.</p> <p>This dissertation examines prosecutions of police in the context of the city’s changing social and political circumstances surrounding the scandals, while recognizing the influence of key individuals who served as district attorneys or in other prosecutorial positions. …
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Die verklaring van verkeerskriminaliteit en die geëvalueerde vaartbelyning van die strafprosesreg vir meer doeltreffende verkeersadministrasie
… other traffic offences per annum for which prosecutions are instituted. More than one million of these three million prosecutions are never finalised - the offenders do not pay their fines, do not appear in court or are not traced for summonses to be served on them. These cases are ended as …
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Prosecuting Hate Speech: Keegstra, Zundel, and the Criminal Law's Ability to Protect Vulnerable Communities
… the cases of R v Keegstra and R v Zundel. Both prosecutions commenced in 1985 and both were ultimately decided by the Supreme Court of Canada. Both involved antisemitism and Holocaust denial. They remain the leading cases in Canadian law on the scope and limits of freedom of expression. Keegstra …
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Ethnographies of Contentious Criminalization: Expansion, Ambivalence, Marginalization
… supporters" aim to push or challenge criminal prosecutions, it describes in detail the ways in which such conflictive and interpretive processes fundamentally alter the logic and development of criminal prosecutions.
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King James' Daemonologie and Scottish Witchcraft Trials
… </em>set a framework for future witchcraft prosecutions.
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The development, regulation and enforcement of water pollution law - a participatory role for individuals and environmental groups?
… consent system, have been able to bring private prosecutions against polluters, and obtain more easy access to environmental information through public registers on water pollution. It appears that at present the most unrestricted way in which individuals and environmental groups can participate …
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The assessment of excessive pricing: before, during, and after COVID-19
… era can be used as precedent for post-COVID-19 prosecutions. It will be interesting to see what impact, if any, the COVID regulations have on post-COVID jurisprudence, as well as whether there is a general increase in prosecutions during normal market conditions. It will be particularly …
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Theorizing 'Transitional Justice'
… retributivists arguing for the need for criminal prosecutions following mass human rights violations and advocates of restorative justice claiming that non-prosecutorial forms of justice like truth-telling are better suited for post-conflict societies. This debate was eventually settled, at least …
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The effects and the effectiveness of the International Criminal Court: a game-theoretic analysis
… hand, and by opposition groups on the other, ICC prosecutions may incentivize leader crimes as opposed to deterring them; (ii) to enhance the effectiveness of the Court, leniency programs targeted towards lower-level perpetrators should be utilized (as is the case in anti-trust law enforcement and …
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The Politics and Practice of Individual Criminal Responsibility at the International Criminal Court
… criminal responsibility on the outcomes of ICC prosecutions. Much of the international relations literature focuses on the opening of investigations and the selection of suspects at the ICC. Specifically, the ICC’s poor record of successful prosecutions – consisting of only five convictions for …
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South African obligation under international law to prosecute and punish perpetrators of gross human rights violations and to provide compensation for victims
… violations of human rights from any criminal prosecutions. Spain is probably the most prominent example for a country having chosen this way but amnesty laws have also been passed, inter alia, in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Sierra Leone and Uruguay. Secondly, there is the option to …
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Enforcement of UK merchant shipping legislation: in 2 volumes
… enforcement files, relating to UK detentions and prosecutions. It would appear that this is the first time that such an analysis has been made.<br/><br/>The thesis is divided into four parts of which Part B and C form the heart of the work. These two consider administrative (Part B) and criminal …
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The Post-Conflict Reconciliation Process; Truth Commissions
… efforts have been achieved through criminal prosecutions, truth commissions, reparation programs, and vetting, a truth commission, in particular, has been progressively used in the past decade as one aspect of transitional justice measures. This increase in use illustrates its popularity in …
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First impressions: the prohibition on printed calicoes in France, 1686-1759
… of the law was discretionary, and evidence from prosecutions has shown that women of lower social status were particularly vulnerable. Significantly, this study has also uncovered that enforcement was indeed frequent and widespread, and that the severest sentences have been masked in prosecutions …
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Efficacy of Administrative Monetary Penalties in Compelling Compliance with Federal Agri-Food Statutes
… briefly on strict liability in regulatory prosecutions. The Part also describes decriminalization, and the developments in Europe, the United States, Australia and Canada that are were ostensibly aimed at decriminalizing less serious regulatory offences. Before analyzing the data, the …
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